Sublime

Lundgren basing Sergeant Scott partly on Jack Palance in Shane and Van Damme patiently standing naked for the obligatory butt shots, while bragging that he could crack a walnut open with his ass cheeks.

Universal Soldier was his first true mainstream project, and director Roland Emmerich hadn’t even heard of him when the casting process began.

He had the unique quality of a man beholding the world for the first time, and directors began casting him as exactly that. For much of the 1990s, Fraser spent a lot of time emerging wide-eyed from bomb shelters (Blast from the Past) or Canada (Dudley Do-Right) or the rain forest (George of the Jungle), but he also took on more serious roles.

‘Folk hero.’ I sipped at the beer. ‘Where is John Wayne now that we really need him?’ ‘John Wayne?’ He shook his head. ‘I never went in the can, you know. I’m no expert at military history.’ ‘Forget it.’